Mobile station and methods for diagnosing and modeling site specific effluent treatment facility requirements

Abstract

A mobile station and methods are disclosed for diagnosing and modeling site specific effluent treatment facility requirements to arrive at a treatment regimen and/or proposed commercial plant model idealized for the particular water/site requirements. The station includes a mobile platform having power intake, effluent intake and fluid outflow facilities and first and second suites of selectably actuatable effluent pre-treatment apparatus. An effluent polishing treatment array is housed at the station and includes at least one of nanofiltration, reverse osmosis and ion-exchange stages. A suite of selectively actuatable post-treatment apparatus are housed at the station. Controls are connected at the station for process control, monitoring and data accumulation. A plurality of improved water treatment technologies are also disclosed.

1 . A mobile station for diagnosing and modeling site specific effluent treatment facility requirements comprising:
 a mobile platform including power intake, effluent intake and fluid outflow facilities;   a first suite of selectably actuatable effluent pre-treatment apparatus housed by said mobile platform and connected with said effluent intake facility of said mobile platform;   an effluent polishing treatment array housed by said mobile platform and connected with said suite of pre-treatment apparatus;   a suite of selectably actuatable effluent post-treatment apparatus housed by said mobile platform and connected with said effluent polishing treatment array and said fluid outflow facility of said mobile platform; and   control means connectable with said power intake facility of said mobile platform for process control and data accumulation to thereby optimize a site specific effluent treatment regimen and establish a site specific effluent treatment facility model.   
     
     
         2 . The mobile station of  claim 1  wherein said control means includes data input establishing site specific effluent quality parameters and output establishing treatment parameters. 
     
     
         3 . The mobile station of  claim 2  further comprising effluent testing means for initial and ongoing evaluation of effluent quality at selected treatment intervals connected with said control means. 
     
     
         4 . The mobile station of  claim 1  further comprising a second suite of selectably actuatable effluent pre-treatment apparatus housed by said mobile platform and operationally associated with said first suite of pre-treatment apparatus, said second suite of pre-treatment apparatus including chemical treatment apparatus, membrane aeration apparatus and electrocoagulation apparatus. 
     
     
         5 . The mobile station of  claim 1  wherein said first suite of pre-treatment apparatus includes membrane aeration apparatus, degassification apparatus and filtration apparatus. 
     
     
         6 . The mobile station of  claim 1  wherein said effluent polishing treatment array includes nanofiltration and reverse osmosis treatment stages. 
     
     
         7 . The mobile station of  claim 1  wherein said suite of post-treatment apparatus includes filtration apparatus, sodium absorption ratio compensation apparatus, UV treatment apparatus and aeration apparatus. 
     
     
         8 . A temporary facility for water quality analysis, treatment modeling, selective contaminated water processing, and data accumulation at a particular treatment site to arrive at a proposed commercial water treatment plant model idealized for the particular water/site requirements, said facility comprising:
 a first suite of selectably actuatable effluent pre-treatment apparatus connected with a feed water intake;   a second suite of selectably actuatable effluent pre-treatment apparatus operationally associated with said first suite of pre-treatment apparatus;   a water polishing treatment array connected to receive feed water after selected processing at said first and second suites of pre-treatment apparatus, said water polishing treatment array including at least one of a membrane treatment array and an ion-exchange treatment array;   a suite of selectably actuatable post-treatment apparatus connected to receive water processed through said water polishing treatment array and providing therefrom a treated water outflow; and   control means connectable with said first and second suites of pre-treatment apparatus, said water polishing treatment array and said suite of post treatment apparatus for process control and data accumulation to thereby optimize a site specific water treatment regimen and establish the site specific proposed commercial water treatment plant model.   
     
     
         9 . The facility of  claim 8  further comprising a feed water quality evaluation and process quality monitoring input to said control means, said input including an automated multi-stage water quality testing and reporting regime. 
     
     
         10 . The facility of  claim 8  wherein said first suite of pre-treatment apparatus includes membrane aeration apparatus, density reduction apparatus, degassification apparatus including venturi gas evacuation, fine filtration apparatus, clarification apparatus, and sludge concentration apparatus. 
     
     
         11 . The facility of  claim 8  wherein said second suite of pre-treatment apparatus includes chemical treatment apparatus, membrane aeration apparatus, ionization apparatus, electrocoagulation apparatus, cyclone separation apparatus, and degassing apparatus. 
     
     
         12 . The mobile station of  claim 1  wherein said membrane treatment array of said water polishing treatment array includes nanofiltration and reverse osmosis treatment stages utilizing high speed crossflow pumping at both said stages and high frequency membrane separation at said nanofiltration stage. 
     
     
         13 . The mobile station of  claim 1  wherein said suite of post-treatment apparatus includes activated carbon filtration, sodium absorption ratio compensation apparatus, UV disinfection apparatus and membrane aeration apparatus. 
     
     
         14 . A method for diagnosing and modeling site specific water treatment facility requirements to arrive at a proposed commercial plant model idealized for the particular water/site requirements comprising the steps of:
 analyzing feed water to be treated at the site;   establishing a preliminary treatment model;   selecting a sequential treatment regimen from a plurality of available treatment technologies in accord with said treatment model;   treating feed water on site in accord with said model at a temporary facility having said plurality of treatment technologies available thereat;   compiling data at said facility related to feed water treatment and reporting treatment efficacy;   when treatment goals are not met by said preliminary treatment model, establishing a revised model; and   when treatment goals are met by any one of said models, establishing the proposed commercial plant model.   
     
     
         15 . The method of  claim 14  wherein the step of establishing the proposed commercial plant model includes at least any one of establishing facility design, construction cost estimates and treatment cost estimates. 
     
     
         16 . The method of  claim 14  wherein the steps of analyzing feed water and compiling data at said facility related to feed water treatment include the step of establishing an automated multi-stage water quality testing and reporting regime. 
     
     
         17 . The method of  claim 14  wherein the step of selecting a sequential treatment regimen from a plurality of available treatment technologies includes the step of selecting pre-treatment, water polishing treatment and post-treatment stages in said regimen. 
     
     
         18 . The method of  claim 17  wherein said step of selecting a pre-treatment stage includes the step of selecting from a suite of selectably actuatable pre-treatment apparatus housed by said temporary facility. 
     
     
         19 . The method of  claim 17  wherein said step of selecting a water polishing treatment stage includes the steps providing at least one of ion-exchange, nanofiltration and reverse osmosis treatments. 
     
     
         20 . The method of  claim 17  wherein said step of selecting a post-treatment stage includes the step of selecting from a suite of selectably actuatable post-treatment apparatus housed by said temporary facility.